Little Shop of Knowledge

The paradox lies in that we’re trying to solve our thoughts with one tool: our own thought. So how do you fix something that’s broken with the broken thing itself? The problem is that we don’t see the problem itself.



Bert made the analogy that our thoughts are like flashlights in the dark. They’re very weak lights so we can’t find the button to adjust the luminosity in our lights. However, there are other people in the room that can come and point their light in our direction, allowing us to see the adjusting button for us to increase the luminosity in our flashlights. I really liked this analogy since it made me understand clearly what this collective learning meant and how we’re to support each other and help clarify each other’s confusions and thoughts throughout the dialogue.



“If the mind treats a paradox as if it were a real problem, then since the paradox has no “solution”, the mind is caught in the paradox forever. Each apparent solution is found to be inadequate, and only leads on to new questions of a yet more muddled nature.”